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This conference was held in St Quentin (France) and is part of a series of events intended to question editorial productions addressing the issue of gender. The intervention took the form of a guided tour of the exhibition “Do video games escape the question of gender?” available here. TV report on the eventKeywords : Gender, Video game, History
Ludopedagogy: what if we used games to develop soft skills? Interview with Julian Alvarez (Broacasting our studies)
Edutainment, or the art of integrating game mechanisms into learning, is proving an increasingly popular approach within companies. Motivating learners, engaging them and even improving memorization - the benefits of games are well established. However, behind its many advantages also lie challenges and ethical issues. Julian Alvarez, PhD in information and communication sciences - specializing in edutainment, serious games and gamification - addresses these issues in his latest book, “Ser [...]Keywords : Softskills, Serious games, Ludopedagogy, Edutainment
Instrumentalizing video games: precautions to take and pitfalls to avoid (Broacasting our studies)
The talk “Instrumentalizing video games: precautions to take and pitfalls to avoid” addressed the effects and counter-effects of using video games for utilitarian purposes, particularly in the workplace and in education. For example, playing with gamers can bring a pedagogical dimension, but poorly orchestrated use can lead to frustration and a potential rejection of the intended learning by participants. This talk is based on the book “Serious Game, "un carcan ludique&quo [...]Keywords : Instrumentalization, Video games, Ethics, Ludopedagogy, Effects, Counter-effects, Serious gaming, Serious game
Publication of the book "Serious Game, un "carcan ludique" ? Jeux vidéo, Travail et Instrumentalisations" (Blog post)
In this book, Julian Alvarez studies the phenomenon of work's gamification, providing readers with the keys to navigating a world steeped in video game culture. He goes even further by opening up a reflection on the constraints opposed to the freedom to play.Thibault Brunet's photography, which questions our relationship to virtuality, accompanies and brings light to this research. Available on éditions LocoKeywords : Book, Serious Game, Serious Gaming, Gamification, Work
Serious Games : "A Ludic Constraint" ? Video games, work and instrumentalizations (Broacasting our studies)
The serious game combines fun means with a productive, educational or communicational purpose. The book approaches the subject from an original angle, starting from the functions of playful activity in the animal world to question the paradoxical purposes in the production and use of video games. Julian Alvarez thus connects the solitary game offered by the most sophisticated virtual mediations with the most apparently rudimentary animal practices. However, he does not stop at this comparison bu [...]Keywords : Liberty, Gamification, Edutainment, Ludopedagogy, Ethics, Interpretive gap, Video game, Game
Player Personality Profile Grid (PPP Grid) (Broacasting our studies)
The purpose of this article is to propose a model to help trainers assess the player profiles they are likely to encounter among their learners. The goal is to maximize the chances of making an edutainment session as effective as possible. This approach resulted in a first iteration of a model. This model was built and derived based on statistical analysis of 1,126 individuals who completed a questionnaire about their communication personality, age, gamer profile, and weekly play time. Using thi [...]Keywords : Profiles, Players, Personnality, Learners, DiSC Model, Bartle's Typology
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In this new episode, Dr. Ludus explores the concept of the "video toy", as described by researcher Stéphane Natkin in 2003 in his book "Video Games and Media in the 21st Century". https://www.eyrolles.com/Informatique... How does the concept of "video toy" differ from that of "video game"? That's what Machine and Dr. Ludus explain in this new episode. Find out more about video toys: http://ja.games.free.fr/Introduction_... (pp.19-21). Cre [...]Keywords : Toy, Video toy
Representation of female gamers in the French-language video-game press between 1980 and 2019 (Broacasting our studies)
The aim of this paper is to present a lexicometric study identifying, between 1980 and 2019, the number of occurrences of the following 4 keywords: “joueuse”, “joueuses”, “joueur” and “joueurs” that can be identified in the French-language videogame press. In concrete terms, the corpus explored represents a set of 1,075 documents, the main titles of which are shown in Table 1. Statistical processing was carried out to check the validity of the data [...]Keywords : Female player, Male player, Female gamer, Male player, Gender stereotype, Video games press, Representation, Video game
Symposium of Scientists (Round Table) (Broacasting our studies)
From 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. (remotely with screening): a great moment of fun, exchanges and interactivity with renowned scientists (Scientists' Symposium led by the Guilde des Ludopédagogues Francophones):Playful intervention by Professor Julian Alvarez: "Ludopedagogy: let's play together to understand" (30 min)Presentation by Dr. Philippe Lépinard - "The teacher's room toy library!" (15 min)Rex on the 2021/2022 Scientific Game Jam (science comes into play) by Johan C [...]Keywords : Ludopedagogy, Edutainment, Training, Serious game, Gamification